this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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The apps you mentioned are scraping or pretending to be the official app.
The official API doesn't have public methods to build an alternative third party player .
The only way YouTube can stop those apps (beside blackmailing devs with legal letters) is to shut down both their own website and their own app
They can ban google accounts of people who use those apps though. I can see them doing it.
i dont need to log in to them they wouldnt know my account
Unfortunately in this case google play protect scans what apps you have installed on your phone by default if you have an android phone and have logged into the play store.
IOS users should be unaffected by that as well as de-googled android users.